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Chinese Chess Introduction Site

This was my Senior Honors Project for the University of Akron. I took it upon myself to design and develop a website that would introduce English speakers to the game of Chinese chess. It’s static HTML and CSS, though I built it on Bootstrap with SASS. The most exciting thing about this project was that I wrote the image swapping jQuery myself, rather than find someone else’s code or plugin to do so. All in all there was a lot I wanted to do with it that I didn’t have time to accomplish, but the end result turned out quite nice for a one man job.

So these guys seemed to be doing a good thing. But their latest blog entry is in 2010. What’s been going on with HTML emails for the past 5 years? Why are they such a mess? Why is no one trying to fix this? Why oh why is Gmail so terrible at this?

In the advertising world, a huge portion of the “web related” campaining is through eBlasts. It only makes sense that these should be as easy to make as a normal website is, and it should be ...